Uneasy Lie the Heads, Coinage of English Kings Público Deposited
ANA Governor Arthur Fitts presents a lively program concerning tales and the coinage of British monarchs who met tragic, tortuous and untimely deaths. * King Edmund in the 9th century who became a saint and his misfortunes with the Danes * King Alfred the Great who died of dysentery * Endred and Eadwig descendants of Alfred * Edward the Martyr who united all the English factions only to be killed visiting his stepmother in 978 * Aethelred the Unready and his 13 children * Edmund Ironside who was disembowelled * the intrigues of Knut until his death from dysentery * Harthaknut & Harold including the Lady Godiva story * William Rufus who was shot in the head with an arrow * more tales of deaths, disembowellings, mutilations, killings and beheadings of monarchs with examples of their coinage Speaker(s): Arthur Fitts, III.
- 2004-01-10
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